Seasons of Blossom (2022)

Past tense relationship saved the show

I have really enjoyed this show.
It talks about ones hurt and how it could implement everyone who loves that person to be severely sad.
The casting is pretty good except the new generation cast felt very "school theater/drama class" esc.
It's not even about overdoing it, all of them just were doing the bare minimum and that made that generation cast
look very weak. even though the cast that had the past tense relationship had more experience. most of their first works were easy to identify their characters in other dramas. easy meaning as in you can actually relate or feel that character.

what i didn't like:
honestly they should've kept it as the past relationship only. the newer didn't really do anything major. it was just a hit or miss with the newer kids. towards the last episodes their story was okay, they just made the drama look light when its supposed to be very melodramatic with it being sad. the drama would go to a hamin scene with a very sad topic and then it would go towards jaemin or either of the new kids, with a happy vibe. it just didn't fit.

What i didnt understand, it was kinda random that jaemins word made hamin kill himself. like what?????

however i really do enjoy watching this. but because the newer kids do get annoying, i dont think ill rewatch. hope seo ji hoon will have an actual main character. i know he has a new one coming soon but hes not the first main.. so i wish he gets one after that. ill be waiting.

Leia Mais

I mean, I was sobbing

First of all, Seo Ji Hoon is absolutely mesmerizing in this drama. How and why is he not starring in every upcoming drama? He's SO AMAZING. What an incredible talent. I've watched 77 Kdramas so far and his performance was probably the best I've ever seen. I saw him in My Lovely Liar and he was stand out in that drama (he had a fairly minor role, but I remembered him). But in this one, totally blew me away.

I do feel like 99% of my enjoyment of this drama was Seo Ji Hoon. The rest of the cast did perfectly fine. The story had some unevenness but was mostly fine. Keeping it real: without Seo Ji Hoon in his role, this probably would've been a 6 instead of an 8 overall.

But because of the believability and excellence of Seo Ji Hoon's performance, this drama had me sobbing at the very end. I cried and cried and couldn't stop wishing he'd somehow come back. Ugh. So, so, so sad. I'm going to have to watch another drama with this actor ASAP.

Leia Mais

Good.

I enjoyed this. It was sad but, the acting was good and the plot was well thought out. The entire drama seemed cohesive, sometimes stories like these end up having plot holes or they're too tragic for me to handle, I could handle the sadness of this one, and although it was hard it was manageable to watch this one without feeling overwhelmed by sadness. I actually thought this would be sadder than it ended up being, I'm glad it wasn't as sad. I think everything wrapped up nicely but I wouldn't necessarily call it a happy ending, I thought it was even more sad the way it ended. I enjoyed the present story a lot, all the actors did a good job. I think honestly if the last few things I watched weren't so amazing I would be more blown away by this, it was a really solid story, the acting wasn't bad, and it was all enjoyable, so I can't give it a lower rating.

Leia Mais

Pick a Season

The only valid play here is the nostalgic journey of the female lead and her middling experience of loss. The drama was overloaded with too many trite moments and rundown turns, using molds from far too many clones of its genre. What initially seemed to be promising characters quickly turned into one-dimensional archetypes with limited emotional attachment that gradually weathered away as it got deeper. The dialogues were mostly stiff accompanied by an obnoxious OST. The students from the present were straight up insufferable. Its cinematography was decent, yet it didn't substitute for the hollowness in the text. The cast presented a mixed bag of performances with the teen cast members being mostly awkward and stiff. Although it was short, the drama had some potential if it were to take the more serious route to better fit its themes rather than being excessively bubbly and sentimental.

Leia Mais

Decent story, could have been executed a bit better

This was in many ways a very beautiful story, or should i say two parallel stories one we know will end with our male lead dyeing. The other a story of youth, young romance and healing of not the worst kind but still healing.

While the time line is all mixed up, the uniforms make sure to keep us from getting confused however once the flashbacks turn in to some kind of talking to a memory the cringe takes over and I found myself rolling my eyes taking a deep breath and just exhaling in frustration.

The overall message is pretty good though and it does not take the issue of suicide or the self guilt afterwords lightly at all which should have upped the score but there where a few to many details that I just could not ignore while setting the score for this.

The acting varies between good and meeh, As Seo Ji Hoon and So Ju Yeons acting is noticably better than the rest of the leading cast. That said the teens are lovely most of the time and there is this little cute gay side couple that share a yellow umbrella in the most subtle but sweet way.

An okay watch, easy to binge as it has short episodes and a decent pacing with the plot.

One more thing the casting of the younger brother was waaay off,
Seo Ji Hoon and Kim Min Kyu look nothing like each other, and do not share the same mimics and can bearaly pass as brothers not to mention look just like his brother... These two are litteraly the guys to disproveonce and for all those ignorant people who say "but they all look the same"

Leia Mais